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Jailbreak is Gods gift to iPhone and Steve Jobs Punishment for trying to dictate to us how we should use the devices we paid a lot of money for and more, pay a lot of money just to use.

Good rebuttal.

Your superior intellect is obvious.

As a proud owner, I’ll help correct your misperceptions. Annoy-A-Teen obviously generates its own tones on the fly instead of simply playing back the free mosquito ringtones like “Teen Torture” does. You can tell by the way it works, if you’re a programmer and/or engineering type. On top of that, in the “Pulse Mode” it modulates these tones, not done in the mosquito MP3 files. On top of that it has the “Alien” mode that is clearly multiple, variable frequencies, once again not possibly by just playing back MP3 files of single tone.

You can verify most all of this via each app’s comment section and visiting the developer’s site – as well as verify that, yes, Scarlet, it really does work… preventing you from having to break the law by cracking it to “test it out”.

So, even though it’s obviously simple, it’s both fun and at least a bit beyond your uninformed “virtually no creativity or brainpower to create” derision. If it was so easy. why didn’t you invent it?

And, seeing that it’s been hovering around #55 Top Paid App for a few weeks, I’d say he IS making quite a bit of money on it, $0.70 at a time. In fact, I think the developer even told you that in the CNET article.

Yes, it’s worth more than free, but the of price is up to the developer, not you. If you don’t think it’s worth, $0.99.

Just don’t steal it, especially by using lame excuses like “I just wanted to make sure it works”.

Please check your facts before insulting others.

I have to side entirely with the developer. Lame excuses are no excuse for theft.

First off, this application should really be free. What’s the difference between this application which costs $.99 and a free WebClip I make in Mobile Safari that just points to a site containing MP3s of these sounds, sometimes referred to as “mosquito ringtones.”

Second off, I’m calling out Christopher Kemsley for this one. There’s the initial fact that the application took virtually no creativity or brainpower to create. It simply plays a music file stored on the iPhone. Also, if he’s charging $.99 and Apple is taking a 30% cut, is he really selling enough of these to make enough money that the FBI should be concerned with this? Doesn’t the FBI have more important matters to deal with rather than some guy whining about losing a few hundred dollars cause he won’t make a trial version.

I side entirely with the cracker on this one. There’s no way I can know that an application will actually do what it promises without trying it out first. I shouldn’t have to fork over money to the developer just to have them not deliver a decent product. Yes, Apple is supposed to be approving each application, but even then, people still manage to release applications that are nothing more than a icon for a mobile webpage.

And don’t even try to blame it on the jailbreak. The jailbreak is god’s gift to the IPhone and only a small percentage of users who jailbreak use it for evil.